Catherine of Siena
Barduccio Canigiani's Letter on Catherine's Death
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Barduccio Canigiani's Letter on Catherine's Death
Lettera di Barduccio Canigiani sul transito di Caterina
A letter written shortly after 29 April 1380 by Barduccio Canigiani, the youngest of her secretaries, to a Florentine nun, Sister Caterina Petriboni, narrating day by day Catherine's last illness and agony, her last words and the presence of her disciples. It is the eyewitness account of her death.
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Authorship note
Not a work by Catherine: recorded separately to distinguish what she dictated from what was told about her. Author: Barduccio Canigiani († 1382). English translation in Thorold's 1907 edition.
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Sources
- Canigiani, Barduccio. Carta sobre el tránsito de Catalina, dirigida a sor Caterina Petriboni (1380). Trad. inglesa en Algar Thorold, The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena… together with an account of her death by an eye-witness. Londres: Kegan Paul, 1907.
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